Can Being Dragged By A Horse Set Your Jeans On Fire? | MythBusters

The Build Team came loaded with three myths that all share exactly one thing in common — they involve blue jeans doing something catastrophic — starting with whether the friction from being dragged across the ground by a horse generates enough heat to ignite denim, which Tory tested personally by wearing full padding and a denim shirt and letting a horse drag him across a field before Grant took the same jeans to a power sander in the lab when the horse wasn't getting the job done, and then moving to the genuinely unsettling myth that people have died from sitting in hot baths while wearing jeans that shrank tight enough to restrict blood flow and cause fatal clotting, testing it with a pressure-sensing gel suit to measure exactly how much constriction wet denim creates as it dries on a body — and the results range from confirmed-busted to genuinely concerning in ways the Build Team clearly didn't expect going in. Subscribe so you never miss an experiment:    / @mythbusterstvshow   Using science as their weapon and curiosity as their fuel, Hollywood special effects experts Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman spent 14 seasons and 296 episodes testing the world's most popular myths, urban legends, and movie moments. From the Diet Coke & Mentos explosion to surviving an underwater car escape — if it can be tested, they'll test it. #MythBusters #AdamSavage #ScienceExperiments